CO129-598-1 Tai Lam Chung Reservoir Project 19-12-1945 - 23-6-1948 — Page 98

3.

You will appreciate that it may probably be

necessary to offer any suitable candidates recruited on

temporary terms appreciably higher salaries than they

would be allowed if appointed on probation in socordance

with the terms of pamphlet H.D. 7.6. I should be grateful

to know whother if necessary you would agree to

recruitment on this basis on the understanding that,

should such officers be transferred later to the

permanent and pensionable establishment, they would full

into line, as far as salaries are concerned, with those

appointed ou normal terms.

منا

I assume you would have no objection to the

payment of a gratuity to a contract officer at the und

of his contract as provided in pamphlet H.D. ..6 if he

is not transferred to the permanent establishmʊnt.

I should be glad if you would confirta,

SBOER.

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